Quantum state estimation and symmetric informationally complete POMs

Quantum State Estimation and Symmetric Informationally Complete POMs ZHU HUANGJUN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 Quantum State Estimation and Symmetric Informationally Complete POMs ZHU HUANGJUN (M.Sc., Peking University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY NUS GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING CENTRE FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 Acknowledgments I am sincerely grateful to my supervisor Berthold-Georg Englert for his guidance, for giving me the opportunities and freedom to explore various interesting topics, and for encouraging me to attend conferences and make presentations. I would also like to thank Markus Grassl for numerous stimulating discussions, especially those on symmetric informationally complete probability operator measurements (SIC POMs), and for critical comments and suggestions on writing. Special thanks to Chen Lin, Masahito Hayashi, Teo Yong Siah, Wei Tzu-Chieh, Jaroslav Řeháček, Zdeněk Hradil, Valerio Scarani, Cyril Branciard, and Xu Aimin for fruitful discussions and collaborations. I am also grateful to Marcus Appleby, Christopher Fuchs, Ingemar Bengtsson, and Andreas Winter for discussions and encouragement. Special thanks also to Yao Penghui, Ng Hui Khoon, Amir Kalev, Philippe Raynal, Tan Si-Hui, Lü Xin, Wang Guangquan, Thiang Guo Chuan, Tomasz Paterek, Tomasz Karpiuk, Ma Jia Jun, Kwek Leong Chuan, Thomas Durt, Daniel Greenberger, and Andrew Scott for stimulating discussions. I would also like to thank Wang Jian-Sheng and Gong Jiangbin for serving on my thesis advisory committee. Special thanks to Dai Li and Lee Kean Loon for enthusiastic help related to the format of the thesis. Special thanks also to the examiners for reviewing this thesis and for providing generous comments and suggestions. I would like to acknowledge the financial support from NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS), and I am grateful to many administrative staff for their dedication to the welfare of students. I am also grateful to Centre for Quantum Technologies and many administrative staff for providing a comfortable research environment and numerous timely help. Finally, many thanks to my parents and my sister for their continuous support and understanding, and to my friends for their encouragement. During the PhD candidature, I have mainly worked on three related topics: quantum state estimation, SIC POMs, and multipartite entanglement. This thesis covers the main results concerning the first two topics, most of which have not been published. Chapters 3, 8, and are based on the following three papers, respectively: ii • H. Zhu and B.-G. Englert, Quantum state tomography with fully symmetric measurements and product measurements, Phys. Rev. A 84, 022327 (2011). • H. Zhu, SIC POVMs and Clifford groups in prime dimensions, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 305305 (2010). • H. Zhu, Y. S. Teo, and B.-G. Englert, Two-qubit symmetric informationally complete positive-operator-valued measures, Phys. Rev. A 82, 042308 (2010). Other papers not covered in this thesis: • Y. S. Teo, H. Zhu, B.-G. Englert, J. Řeháček, and Z. Hradil, Quantum-state reconstruction by maximizing likelihood and entropy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 020404 (2011). • L. Chen, H. Zhu, and T.-C. Wei, Connections of geometric measure of entanglement of pure symmetric states to quantum state estimation, Phys. Rev. A 83, 012305 (2011). • H. Zhu, L. Chen, and M. Hayashi, Additivity and non-additivity of multipartite entanglement measures, New J. Phys. 12, 083002 (2010). • L. Chen, A. Xu, and H. Zhu, Computation of the geometric measure of entanglement for pure multiqubit states, Phys. Rev. A 82, 032301 (2010). • C. Branciard, H. Zhu, L. Chen, and V. Scarani, Evaluation of two different entanglement measures on a bound entangled state, Phys. Rev. A 82, 012327 (2010). • H. Zhu, Y. S. Teo, and B.-G. Englert, Minimal tomography with entanglement witnesses, Phys. Rev. A 81, 052339 (2010). • Y. S. Teo, H. Zhu, and B.-G. Englert, Product measurements and fully symmetric measurements in qubit-pair tomography: A numerical study, Opt. Commun. 283, 724 (2010). iii Contents Acknowledgments ii Summary x List of Tables xi List of Figures xii List of Abbreviations xiv List of Symbols xv Introduction 1.1 Quantum state estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Symmetric informationally complete POMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantum state estimation 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2 Historical background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3 Quantum states and measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.4 iv 11 2.3.1 Simple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.3.2 Composite systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Quantum state reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.4.1 Linear state reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.4.2 Maximum-likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.4.3 Other reconstruction methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Contents 2.5 Fisher information and Cramér–Rao bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Fully symmetric measurements and product measurements 31 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.2 Setting the stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.2.1 Linear state tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.2.2 Tight IC measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Applications of random-matrix theory to quantum state tomography . . 38 3.3.1 A simple idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.3.2 Isotropic measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.3.3 Tight IC POMs and SIC POMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.3.4 Qubit tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Joint SIC POMs and Product SIC POMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.4.1 Bipartite scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.4.2 Multipartite scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The power of informationally overcomplete measurements 57 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.2 Optimal state reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.2.1 Optimal reconstruction in the perspective of frame theory . . . . 60 4.2.2 Connection with the maximum-likelihood method . . . . . . . . . 63 4.3 Quantum state estimation with mutually unbiased measurements . . . . 64 4.4 Efficiency of covariant measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.5 Informationally overcomplete measurements on the two-level system . . 72 4.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Optimal state estimation with adaptive measurements 77 5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.2 Quantum Fisher information and quantum CR bound . . . . . . . . . . 80 5.2.1 One-parameter setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 v Contents 5.2.2 5.3 Multiparameter setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Gill–Massar trace and Gill–Massar bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5.3.1 Reexamination of the Gill–Massar inequality . . . . . . . . . . . 86 5.3.2 Gill–Massar bound for the scaled WMSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.3.3 Gill–Massar bounds for the mean square Bures distance and the mean square HS distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.4 5.5 Optimal quantum state estimation with adaptive measurements . . . . . 92 5.4.1 A general recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5.4.2 Approximate saturation of the Gill–Massar bound for the MSB . 100 5.4.3 Degenerate two-level systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 5.4.4 Comparison with nonadaptive schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Summary and open problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Quantum state estimation with collective measurements 113 6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Gen., 34:7111, 2001. 274 Index D-invariant, 117 p-group, 246 t-design, 232 weighted, 232 2-design mutually unbiased bases (MUB), 232 SIC POM, 232 weighted, 38 SLD Fisher information, 82, 231 canonical form of a graph, 255 canonical order-3 Clifford unitary transformation, 153 central-limit theorem, quantum, 16, 114 Clifford group, 153, 160, 247 normalizer of, 190, 251 structure, 163 adaptive measurement, 5, 77 coherent measurement, 6, 127 comparison with nonadaptive complementarity polynomial, 128, 144 schemes, 107 covariant, 142, 148 degenerate two-level system, 103 GMT, 131, 144 optimal quantum state estimation, 92 optimal, 148 two-step adaptive, 82 quantum state estimation, 122 adjacency matrix, 255 qubit state estimation, 140, 146 angle matrix, 203, 212 coherent state, 6, 126 angle tensor, 203 conjecture, 132 Appleby, 153, 183 collective measurement, 6, 20 Clifford group, 153, 164 asymptotic state estimation, 115 equivalence criterion for SIC POMs, coherent measurement, see coherent 155, 204 measurement HW group, 161 quantum state estimation, 113 SIC POMs in dimension three, 176 qubit state estimation, 136 automorphism, 256 collineation group, 156 automorphism group, 256 commutation superoperator, 117 complementarity polynomial, 128, 131 balanced measurement, 67 qubit, 144 SIC POM and MUB, 67 complementarity principle, 1, 85 Bayesian approach, 17 conjecture Bayesian mean estimation (BME), 25 balanced measurement, 67 Born rule, 18 coherent state, 132 bound extremal Fisher information matrix, Cramér–Rao (CR), 27 97 generalized Gill–Massar (GM), 137 Gill–Massar trace (GMT), 132 Gill–Massar (GM), 85 HW covariant SIC POM, 181 joint, 138 quantum Cramér–Rao (CR), 80, 115 conjecture of Slater, 145 RLD, 115 Zauner, 153, 154 Scott, 38 covariant measurement, 68 SLD, 81 Welch, 152 covariant coherent measurement, 142, Bures distance, 231 148 275 Index Cramér–Rao (CR) bound, 2, 27, see product measurement, 51 also quantum Cramér–Rao (CR) Gaussian bound approximation, 36 displacement operator, 165 unitary ensemble, 39 general linear group, 123 entangled measurement, 21 generalized Bloch vector (GBV), 192 entangled state, 20 generalized Gill–Massar (GM) bound, 137 entanglement, 20 generalized measurement, 18 equiangular lines, 152 generalized Pauli group, see HW group Welch bound, 152 geometric phase, 178, 203 equivalence problem, 8, 156, 200 Gill–Massar (GM), 15 extended automorphism group, 256 bound, extended Clifford group, 163 generalized, 137 extended special linear group, 163 qubit, 88 extended symmetry group, 157 scaled MSB, 89 scaled MSH, 90, 91 Fano, 11, 22 scaled WMSE, 88 fidelity, 1, 17, 230 inequality, 87 fiducial measurement, 31 theorem, 86 fiducial POM, trace, see GMT fiducial state, GMT, 5, 86 dimension eight, 224 asymptotic maximum, 121, 135, 144 dimension four, 184 coherent measurement, 131 dimension three, 176 complementarity polynomial, 131 Hoggar lines, 221 maximum in qubit state estimation, known solutions, 152 145 qubit, 168 maximum over collective measurefigures of merit ments when ρ = 1/d, 135 Bures distance, 231 Slater’s conjecture, 145 fidelity, 230 graph, 205, 255 Hilbert–Schmidt (HS) distance, 229 graph automorphism problem, 202, 256 trace distance, 229 graph isomorphism problem, 202, 256 Fisher information, 27 graph-theoretic approach, 10, 200 Fisher information matrix, 2, 28 Grassl, 153–155, 223 Uρ -invariant, 93, 103 group coherent measurement, 128, 140 p-group and Sylow p-subgroup, 246 extremal, 95 (extended) Clifford group, see Clifford frame superoperator, 63 group GM inequality, 86 (extended) automorphism group, 256 mutually unbiased measurements on a (extended) special linear group, 163 qubit, 75 (extended) symmetry group, 157 RLD bound, 116, 120 general linear group, 123 SLD bound, 81 generalized Pauli group, see HW frame superoperator, 34, 35 group covariant measurement, 68 Fisher information matrix, 63 Heisenberg–Weyl (HW) group, see optimal reconstruction, 60 HW group 276 Index index group, 245 tight, 31, 36 informationally overcomplete measuresymmetric group, 123 ment, 4, 20, 57, 59 three-qubit Pauli group, 162 isomorphism, 255 group covariance, 151, 157 groups that can generate SIC POMs, isotropic measurement, 40, 41, 45 Ivanović, 12, 58 159, 168 Hayashi, 15, 16, 114 hedged maximum-likelihood estimation (HMLE), 13, 26 height of a partition, 123 Heisenberg–Weyl group, see HW group Helstrom, 11, 15, 81 highest-weight state, 125 Hilbert–Schmidt (HS) distance, 1, 229 Hoggar lines, 9, 10, 155, 162, 196, 226 fiducial state, 221 group covariance and symmetry, 180, 220 Holevo, 15 bound, 15, 16, 117 commutation superoperator, 117 lemma, 116 homogeneous complementarity polynomial, 131 Hradil, 13, 24, 58 HW covariant SIC POM, 211 beyond prime dimensions, 180 dimension three, 171, 212 equivalence relation, 171, 175, 177, 181, 215 prime dimensions, 8, 167, 169 qubit, 168 regrouping phenomenon, 189 symmetry group, 171, 175, 178, 180, 185, 215 two-qubit, 9, 183, 191 HW group, 7, 160 in the Clifford group, 252, 253 standard, 176, 253 hypergraph, 205, 256 k-uniform, 256 index group, 245 individual measurement, 20 informationally complete (IC), 3, 19 minimal, 20 joint bound, 138 joint SIC POM, 4, 32, 50 lemma N -partite symmetric state, 241 a matrix inequality, 60, 233 bipartite antisymmetric state, 242 Gill–Massar trace (GMT), 132 HW covariant SIC POM, 169 orbits of states in a SIC POM, 158 SLD Fisher information matrix, 129 lemma of Holevo, 116 likelihood functional, 23 linear state reconstruction, 22 linear state tomography, 3, 34 local asymptotic normality, 16, 114 log likelihood functional, 23 maximum entropy (ME) principle, 13 maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation, 13, 23 estimator, 24, 28 method, 63 principle, 23 mean square Bures distance (MSB), 2, see also scaled MSB mean square error (MSE), 31, see also scaled MSE matrix, 28 weighted, mean square Hilbert Schmidt distance (MSH), 1, see also scaled MSH measurement, 18 adaptive measurement, 77 coherent measurement, see coherent measurement collective measurement, see collective measurement covariant measurement, 68 entangled measurement, 21 individual measurement, 20 277 Index informationally complete (IC) measurement, 19 informationally overcomplete measurement, 20, 57 isotropic measurement, 40 mutually unbiased measurements, see mutually unbiased measurements probability operator measurement (POM), 19 product measurement, 21, 50 separable measurement, 21 symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurement, 3, see also SIC POM tight informationally complete (IC) measurement, 36 measurement operator, 18 monomial, 170 monotone Riemannian metric, 71, 78 mutually unbiased bases (MUB), 3, 64 mutually unbiased measurements, 3, 12, 58, 64 balanced measurement, 67 MSE matrix, 66 optimality in state estimation, 66 qubit state estimation, 48, 74, 89 Nagaoka, 15, 16 nice error basis, 245 SIC POM, 159, 180, 216, 223, 226 nice graph, 210 normalizer of the Clifford group, 190, 251 open questions, see also conjecture quantum state estimation, 111, 150 SIC POM, 227 ordered partition, 206 product SIC POM, 4, 32 bipartite, 50 multipartite, 54 projective measurement, 19 pure-state limit adaptive measurement, 235, 238 asymptotic state estimation, 120, 121 coherent measurement, 143, 145, 147 covariant measurement, 71 pure-state models, 16 quantum central-limit theorem, 16, 114 quantum cloning, 17 quantum Cramér–Rao (CR) bound, 15, 80, see also SLD bound and RLD bound quantum estimation theory, 11, 78, 114 quantum Fisher information, 80, see also SLD Fisher information and RLD Fisher information quantum process tomography (QPT), 14 quantum state estimation, adaptive measurement, 77 collective measurement, 113 asymptotic limit, 115 coherent measurement, 122 nonadaptive measurement linear reconstruction, 31 optimal reconstruction, 57 open problems, 111, 150 quantum state tomography, see quantum state estimation qubit state estimation adaptive measurement, 88 collective measurement, 136 nonadaptive measurement linear reconstruction, 45 optimal reconstruction, 72 quorum, 11 partition, 123 height, 123 ordered, 206 random-matrix theory, 3, 38 Pauli-exclusion principle, 134 positive-operator-valued measure reconstruction operator, 35, 201 canonical, 35 (POVM), see probability opinformationally incomplete measureerator measurement (POM) ment, 62 probability operator measurement (POM), linear state reconstruction, 22 1, 19 product measurement, 21, 50 optimal, 60 278 Index product measurement, 51 tight IC measurement, 37 recursive ordered partition (ROP), 208 reference vertex, 206 regrouping phenomenon of SIC POMs, 9, 189 Renes, 153, 155 right logarithmic derivative (RLD), 15, 116 RLD bound, 116 scaled GMT, 121 scaled MSB, 120 scaled MSE, 120 scaled WMSE, 116 RLD Fisher information, 116, 118, 119 ROP, 208 scaled mean HS distance, 40, 42, 43 scaled mean trace distance, 39 isotropic measurement, 42, 48 product SIC POM, 52, 54 qubit tomography, 48 SIC POM, 43 scaled MSB approximate saturation of the GM bound, 100 covariant measurement, 70 discontinuity at the boundary of the state space, 237 GM bound, 89 optimal adaptive measurement, 109 qubit state estimation with collective measurements, 146 RLD bound (saturated in the asymptotic limit), 120 scaled MSE covariant measurement, 70 linear reconstruction, 35 mutually unbiased measurements, 66 optimal reconstruction, 61 product SIC POM, 51, 54 qubit, 46, 73, 74 RLD bound (saturated in the asymptotic limit), 120 tight IC measurement, 37 scaled MSE matrix, 28, 35, 120 qubit, 46, 75 scaled MSH GM bound, 90, 91 optimal adaptive measurement, 108 qubit state estimation with collective measurements, 146 Schur symmetric polynomial, 124, 140 Schur–Weyl duality, 123 Scott bound, 38 SIC POM, 153, 154 tight IC measurement, 3, 31, 36 separable measurement, 21 GMT, 86 separable state, 20 Sibley’s theorem, 170 SIC POM, 7, 151 equiangular lines, 152 equivalence or equivalent, 153, 159 equivalence problem, 8, 156, 200 fiducial state, see fiducial state graph-theoretic approach, 200 group covariance, 151, 157, 159, 168 Hoggar lines, see Hoggar lines HW covariant, see HW covariant SIC POM known solutions, 152 MUB, 49, 67, 74, 151 nice error basis, 159, 180, 216, 223, 226 numerical search, 153, 154, 225 open questions, 67, 227 orbit, 153, 159 quantum state estimation, 42, 48, 50, 74 symmetry group, 157 symmetry problem, 8, 156, 200 algorithm, 206 tight IC measurement, 31, 38 unitary symmetry and permutation symmetry, 201 skew isomorphism, 255 Slater’s conjecture, 145 Slater-determinant state, 126, 240, 242 SLD bound, 81 equivalent formulations, 83 scaled MSB, 85 scaled MSH, 85 scaled WMSE, 84 279 Index SLD Fisher information, 81, 84, 118, 119 Bures distance, 82 special linear group, 163 standard HW group, 176, 253 state reconstruction, 21 Bayesian mean estimation (BME), 25 hedged maximum-likelihood estimation (HMLE), 26 linear state reconstruction, 22, 34 maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE), 23 optimal reconstruction in the perspective of frame theory, 60 strong group covariant, 157 swap operator, 124, 129 Sylow p-subgroup, 246 group covariant SIC POM, 169, 171, 180 Sylow’s theorem, 246 symmetric group, 123 symmetric informationally complete (SIC), 3, 151 symmetric informationally complete probability operator measurement, see SIC POM symmetric logarithmic derivative (SLD), 11, 81, 83 symmetry group of a SIC POM, 157 symmetry problem, 8, 156, 200 symplectic operator, 165 prime dimensions not equal to three, 171 trace of a Clifford operator, 248 theorem of Gill–Massar, 86 Sibley, 170 Sylow, 246 Zauner, 158 three-qubit Pauli group, 162 tight informationally complete (IC), 31, 36 quantum state estimation, 42 weighted 2-design, 38 trace distance, 1, 32, 229 triple product, 178, 185, 203 two-step adaptive, 82 unimodular, 157, 170 von Neumann measurement, see projective measurement weighted t-design, 232 weighted 2-design, 31, 38 weighted 3-design, 41 weighted mean square error (WMSE), 2, 29 convex optimization, 99 generalized GM bound, 137, 138 GM bound, 87 joint bound, 138, 139 RLD bound, 116 Welch bound, 152 Wigner function, 12, 13, 151 theorem Wigner semicircle law, 39 asymptotic Fisher information matrix, Wootters, 12, 17, 58, 64, 113 143, 244 Zauner, 152, 220 asymptotic GMT, 135, 243 conjecture, 153, 154 Gill–Massar trace (GMT), 133 matrix, 165 group covariant SIC POM in a prime theorem, 157 dimension, 168 unitary transformation, 153, 165 groups that can generate SIC POMs, zero-eigenvalue problem, 25, 26 159 normalizer of the Clifford group, 252 orbits and equivalence of SIC POMs, 159 symmetry of a SIC POM beyond prime dimensions, 180 dimension three, 175 280 [...]... 254 xviii Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Quantum state estimation Quantum state estimation is a procedure for inferring the state of a quantum system from generalized measurements, known as probability operator measurements (POMs) It is a primitive of many quantum information processing tasks, 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